Thanks, but I'm trying to switch from 1440*900 to 1024*768 without the picture looking stretched (I just switched to Vector Linux 7.0 from Windows 7 on Monday), and I want to be able to read any text that I might see on it, I also have a Nvidia GeForce 210 video display card.

Aspect ratio is the relationship between the width and the height of the picture.1440 divided by 900 equals 1.6, in other words an aspect ratio of 16:10.1024 / 768 is 1.33333 (4:3)To get a 16:10 aspect ratio with a width of 1024 you need a height of 640.

Are you talking about having bars on the sides and not using the whole screen for the image?Is this for movies or your regular desktop?Does your monitor have a ratio selection, where you can choose "zoom, stretch, normal etc.."?